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First POST: Retrospectives

Wednesday, November 28 2012

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Top Republican digital strategists plan to analyze the election aftermath; Rep. Darrell Issa goes to Reddit looking for a conversation about Internet regulations; and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web.

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First POST: Retrospectives

The Romney campaign's Zac Moffat and RNC digital strategy director Tyler Brown plan to recap their campaign strategy at an RNC on Dec 6. National Journal reports the post-mortem may be a chance for Moffat to address the criticism which, deserved or no, arrived at his doorstep in the wake of the campaign.

The document pass-along will complement the Romney campaign data that will eventually be provided to the RNC. Information on donors and volunteers collected by the joint fundraising committee of the Romney campaign and the RNC -- emails, addresses, which events they attended, etc. -- will be transferred to the RNC.

"This will increase overnight the RNC donor file" by a massive amount, said Zac Moffatt, who served as digital director for the Romney 2012 campaign. "This will dwarf anything Republicans have done before," he said regarding the transfer of data and digital campaign information. Mr. Moffatt previously worked as RNC director of political education.

Around the web

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is asking for input on Reddit on his proposal to ban new regulations or burdens on the Internet for two years.

Is Issa in for a rough day? His AMA was scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m., and Reddut users are posing some toughquestions.

In the Wall Street Journal, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Personal Democracy Media's Andrew Rasiej call for a volunteer technology corps modeled on the National Guard.

For the New York Times, Lawrence Downes writes that a new version of the STEM Jobs act is still problematic because it would eliminate a visa category for people from countries with a low immigration rate to the U.S.

A federal court in Pennsylvania ruled that law enforcement officials can track an individual's location using so-called anti-WiFi moocher software, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Infojustice highlighted what it called "Germany’s Bad, and Illegal, Proposal to Require 'Ancillary Copyright' Licensing of Internet Search," which could move forward in German parliament this week, and where Google has taken a public role this week in opposition. A commentator for Germany's public broadcasting service criticized Google's campaign, calling it hypocritical, and writing that "Google is not the Robin Hood of Internet Freedom."

On Twitter, the association of German news publishers compared search engines' aggregation of news content to store robbery.

A Russian Supreme Court ruling puts more pressure on Internet service providers to block websites without direct interference from the government, the Moscow Times reported.

The European Commission has stated that credit card companies that blocked donations to Wikileaks didn't do anything wrong. Julian Assange claimed that "hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks," Reuters reported.

Both Amazon and Google were denied acceptance to a British government platform to showcase services that are pre-approved for public-sector bodies, TechweekEurope reported.

British news broadcaster ITN has launched TruthLoader, a YouTube channel to showcase amateur video from news hotspots worldwide, in cooperation with Storyful, and an accompanying subreddit discussion group.